The Pine-tree coast . MOUNT DESERT ISLAND. 295 After Bernard (laiue the Revolution with its check to all prosperity, itsconfiscations, and its hatreds. Bernards property went with the rest; but afterthe war was over, his son John, who had remained in the country, a cpiietsjjcctator of passing events, succeeded in getting restored to him the west halfof the island. The other half was also restored, not to Bernards heir, but toMadame Tlierese de Gregoire, the granddaughter and heiress of La Motte Cadil-lac,^ and to her husband, Barthel^my, who thereupon settled at Hulls Cove,where they afterward
The Pine-tree coast . MOUNT DESERT ISLAND. 295 After Bernard (laiue the Revolution with its check to all prosperity, itsconfiscations, and its hatreds. Bernards property went with the rest; but afterthe war was over, his son John, who had remained in the country, a cpiietsjjcctator of passing events, succeeded in getting restored to him the west halfof the island. The other half was also restored, not to Bernards heir, but toMadame Tlierese de Gregoire, the granddaughter and heiress of La Motte Cadil-lac,^ and to her husband, Barthel^my, who thereupon settled at Hulls Cove,where they afterwards lived and died as American citizens. The claim of theseGregoires to Mount Desert was allowed, not so nuudi on its merits, — for inthat light it was a pure gift, — as an exhibition of that abounding gratitudetoward our French allies which made even the most obsolete claim a debt Sargents mountain, from the sound. Having thus swept the historic horizon through the medium of musty rec-ords, we are all the more impatient to get acquainted with those picturesquefeatures through which the island has acquired its later prestige. It is as if the granite hills of New Hampshire had been transported to theshores of the Atlantic to form a more imposing display. And though there areso many ways of reaching the island, none, I am sure, shows off its rare combi-nation of shore and mountain to so much advantage as the approach from sea,— the way of the discoverers and explorers. But we shall sail without wind and ride without horses. As we come toward the island, out of the west, we first make out what seemsa solitary mountain, darkly blue, cool as an iceberg, lifted up above the what chance has this freak of nature heaved or lodged itself against theseshores ? Upon getting closer, tlie mass expands into a crown of barren summits, more 296 THE PINE-TREE COAST. or
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